Maluco
At first glance, Maluco, la novela de los descubridores, by the Uruguayan novelist Napoleon Bacino Ponce de Leon (Montevideo 1947) is about Hernando de Magalhaes first expedition around the world, as described by the fleets jester who, in a letter addressed to an aged Charles I of Spain, in his declining years, asking that the…
Una Mujer De Fin De Siglo
In her 1999 novel, – Una mujer de fin de siglo-, Maria Rosa Lojo evokes the decades that followed Rosas dictatorship of Argentina (1829-1952), when the country began to move toward modernity, impelled by the ideology and aspirations of its new leaders. The protagonist of the novel, the writer Eduarda Mansilla de Garcia, was Rosas…